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Show Spear Head Found Near Grand Junction The University of Utah anthropology anthro-pology department has come into or.-?'s:;ion of one of the, most remarkable re-markable discoveries yet made in the treat basin. A spr-ar head estimated es-timated to be about 20,000 years eld was recently obtained by Professor Pro-fessor J. H. Steward from a motorist mot-orist who picked up the specimen speci-men near Grand Junction, Colorado. Color-ado. This is the first definite proof that primitive man of the very extreme ancient time inhabited th great basin. Several Folsom print'-, as this type of head is railed, have been found east of the Rockies but the ' specimen owned by the University is the first and only one discovered in this region. Dr. Steward describes the spear hcid as an elegantly carved piece of Pint abcut two and one half inches long and grooved on each ide to furnish an attachment to a jpear. An idea of the primitive character of the people of this ai?e can be obtained by the fact that they lived about 18,000 years before the invention of the bow and arrow and that their sole weapon was the spear. In other parts of the United States where Folsom points have been discovered in the fossil remains re-mains of extinct, bison and tusked mammoths giving another indication indi-cation of the extreme age of this ancient civilization. Members of the anthropology department plan to go about their work of tracing Utah's ancient an-cient civilization with added enthusiasm en-thusiasm as a result of the discovery dis-covery of this important spear head. |